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  • From: "Thomas L. Thompson" <tlt AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: 'uri hurwitz' <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: SV: SV: SV: QohSV: Qoheleth
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:27:22 +0200


No Thompson doesn't deny chronological development; only that the theories
trying to define it coherently. My thousand years includes a clear
distinction between biblical and rabbinic Hebrew.
Thomas

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: uri hurwitz [SMTP:uhurwitz AT yahoo.com]
> Sendt: 22. maj 2001 18:07
> Til: Biblical Hebrew
> Emne: Re: SV: SV: QohSV: Qoheleth
>
>
> truly I'm confused: does Thompson deny that there is diachronic
> development in BH?
> It would seem that the epigraphic texts from Lakhish, Arad, Yabneh Yam
> alone would offer chronological help.
> The orthography of a PN name like DWD always without a Yod in Sam., but
> always with a Yod in Chron., with a few Yods creeping into texts in
> between is
> a clear indication of Orthographic development.
> The syntactic differences, as well as some lexical (cf. SFR with )GRT
> )are of course well known.
> That no exact date can be given for the composition or editorial
> treatment of texts that span a thousand or more years (yes, early Heb
> poetry is ancient!) is regrettable, but in the case of the HB unavoidable
> in our present state of knowledge. Uri UriHurwitz
>
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